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# Observations & Connections Based on Recent Things Around Me
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A video from _Periodic Videos_ comes to mind wherein they tells a story about someone that tried to make a _mini-nuclear reactor_ in their kitchen.
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The tone of the speaker in the video is in some ways mocking the guy for trying to do this in their own home and not in a lab.
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Some believe that he [reactor-guy] was trying to split atoms and so he used some elements in a mix but it went wrong and blew up his stove-top.
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> _What if he made a great discovery?_
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When asked about this the speaker [speaker-guy] mentions that reactor-bro shouldn't be doing this in his home because its not safe and could kill him (reminder that battery engineers complain the same about home power cell diy'ers [see: muh safety argument]).
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There's also random clips of nuclear testing demonstrations from the 50's which are seemingly randomly thrown in as if to insinuate that reactor-bro was trying to make or bomb or could have _nuked'd_ himeself.
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It seems a bit out of place and weird.
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PDF2LEFT: states about the epistemological doctrine of classical scientists in history: "who works in a particular historical situation must learn how to recognize error and how to live with it". Going on to say that they need a "_theory of error_ in addition to the _certain and infallible_ rules which define the approach to the truth.
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Further: To develop a theory of error is to create an (likely unchanging) _theory of error_ is to riddle that same theory with historically sourced error.
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In other words the theory itself is not free from the very thing that it describes as a problem to scientific development. [see observational bias, infinitesimal regression or observation]
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# Something about a form of indoctrination I thought was cool
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> Almost everyone now agrees that what looks like a result of reason - the mastery of a language, the existence of a richly articulated
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perceptual world, logical ability - is due partly to indoctrination, partly a to a process of growth that proceeds with the force of natural low
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